Huge 'meteor' swoops through Nevada skies (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

A giant glowing object soared through the night sky near Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, with excited witnesses rushing to post photographs and videos of the what they believed to be a meteor on social media.

Local outlet KSNV reported that McArran airport confirmed the object was not an aircraft since it was too high in the sky.

Other than a meteor, Twitter users and experts speculated that the object could have been falling space debris. Bob Pippin of the CSN Planetarium in southern Nevada told KSNV it could have been a satellite.